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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
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The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
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If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.
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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
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